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Translation - Russian-Latin - Пусть твои враги покинут тебя, Если ты достигнешь...

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Пусть твои враги покинут тебя, Если ты достигнешь...
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Submitted by alenkafrank
Source language: Russian

Пусть твои враги покинут тебя,
Если ты достигнешь богатств, пусть они останутся с тобой
навсегда,
Пусть твоя красота будет как красота Апсары
Куда бы ты не отправилась, пусть многие последуют за тобой,
служа и защищая тебя.
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Для тату.

Title
Hostes tui ab te discedant...
Translation
Latin

Translated by Aneta B.
Target language: Latin

Hostes tui ab te discedant,
Si divitias attingas, illae cum te semper maneant
Pulchritudo tua ut forma Apsarae sit
Quandocumque venias, multi te sequantur
tibi servientes te custodientesque.
Validated by Aneta B. - 9 October 2012 09:58





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4 October 2012 21:01

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Hi Siberia,
It seems that we haven't got many people here who know both Russian and Latin.
Could you give me a bridge for the text then?

CC: Siberia

8 October 2012 17:47

Siberia
Number of messages: 611
An easy bridge and my pleasure

Let your enemies leave you
If you attain to wealth let it stay with you
forever
Let your beauty be as Apsara's beauty
Let many follow you serving and protecting you wherever you may go


8 October 2012 19:38

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Thanks! All agree!

8 October 2012 19:42

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Hi, Alex, I know you just started learning Russian, but I think you could help me to evaluate my translation upon Siberia's bridge.
Could you, please?

CC: alexfatt

8 October 2012 23:54

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
Yay, I managed to read the Russian text!! I feel powerful

No idea what it means yet, but judging from the English bridge you did it perfectly. But why you chose to translate красота/beauty with two different words in Latin? Are there some nuances of meaning I'm unaware of?


9 October 2012 09:26

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Hi Alex,
Bravo, you can already read in Russian!

Yes, all existing words have a bit different meaning, there aren't two different words with exactly the same meaning.
In this case both "pulchritudo" and "forma" mean "beauty" indeed, but the first one is more an abstract noun (beauty in general), meanwhile "forma" refers to beauty of a body.

9 October 2012 16:22

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
I see, thanks for explaining dear Aneta!
I believe both beauties are body beauties though (your beauty and Aspara's beauty), aren't they?


9 October 2012 17:18

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Not exactly, Alex. You know Latin is richer in its words meanings than for example English language.

-->pulchritudo" can refer to body's beauty but also to "nature's beauty, sunset's beauty, music's beauty, world's beauty, human soul's beauty etc. (It may describe general beauty)

-->"forma" can refer only to body's/shape's beauty.

That's the difference.

9 October 2012 17:09

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Compare them with adjectives, please:

pulchritudo-->pulcher, pulchra, puchrum
forma -> formosus, formosa, formosum

We can say:
puer pulcher, puella pulchra, dies pulcher, musica pulchra, spectaculum pulchrum etc.

We can also say:
puer formosus, puella formosa, even animal formosum
But we never can say: dies formosus, musica formosa, spectaculum formosum!

9 October 2012 23:10

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
I'm sorry Aneta, I don't get it yet...
Isn't the line talking about the beauty of two women?

9 October 2012 23:23

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Why TWO women, Alex?

"Let your beauty be as Apsara's beauty"

Apsara

-->the comparison refers to a female beauty ("forma" femina). Doesn't it?

9 October 2012 23:28

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
I'm sorry, I did not know what Apsara was! So it's like saying "Let your beauty be as Aphrodites's beauty" in the Greek world?

9 October 2012 23:32

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487

9 October 2012 23:44

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
And I translated the first "beauty" with "pulchritudo", because it could be taken in general, even if the comparison refers to the female beauty (forma).

That is how I understand the line:

Let your beauty (in general: your look, your mentality, your soul, your way of living, your behaviour..) be as Aspara's beauty (=as Aspara's body/shape/look)


10 October 2012 23:05

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
Ok, now I agree

Thanks for not losing your patience